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This story is obviously of much more importance than we realised. It even made the radio 4 one o'clock news. Those editors certainly have their ears to the ground.

On seeing the headline I was looking for the answer to the suggestion that IBS is all in the mind. I don't suppose they provide one.

Did Ramsay ever say that ME was caused by enteroviruses and only by enteroviruses? And would it only be people with confirmed enterovirus infection who could be deemed to have ME? This looks more like Hyde's version of ME than Ramsay's.

I suppose that one bright aspect of this is that it must be clear to all that to appoint a researcher in any way connected with matters currently under investigation would be an obviously flawed decision.

That struck me too. I thought that you could never confirm a hypothesis, unless it is so wide as to be meaningless, merely fail to disprove it and thus reinforce the belief.

Surely, in that tweet from Cort, a prostrate drug is only doing its job if it causes OI.

Has new evidence been found to substantiate that claim? I thought the only evidence was a discussion which Byron Hyde had with one of the last surviving patients. If so, it would seem to undermine the whole origin myth, and would require a lot of rethinking.

I think we may have to be careful about rejecting this claim. It may be that it is a distortion of the truth, displaying the tendency to put SW1 at the centre of the universe, around which all revolve, rather than an outright fabrication. A few weeks ago I did come across a reference to a...

All this talk of "mind" made me blow the dust off Bertrand Russell, both literally and metaphorically. His comments are quite telling. The earliest known use of the concept, albeit in a rather different form, he attributes to Anaxagoras born about 500 BC and says "Both Aristotle and the...

Some mistake surely. It is not the well known autism researcher who is infamous for the thong, but his brother Sacha.

I am amazed that it was allowed to remain up for so long. I never understood how someone who might wish to be called upon to act as an expert witness could be seen to be publicly making such demonstrably incorrect assertions about the Sunday Times image.

I had a very clear pattern of relapse/remission during the first eleven years. This followed an acute onset with atypical glandular fever - "atypical" because, although diagnosed by GP and consultant physician, the blood tests were negative. There was no period of complete recovery from the...

The book was The Hazards of immunisation by Sir Graham S Wilson (1967). The reference to it was in a letter from Doris Jones appearing in the MRC National archives papers at p 78

Is that the unpublished "prequel"?

It is. But with that sort of equation there needs to be proper recognition of those for whom risk turns into adverse events. It is not good enough to say that there are overall benefits for society. Those adversely affected need to be fairly evaluated and compensated. I seem to recall...

I am not sure he can be criticised for this. He never stated what it was named before it became CFS, or who called it ME, having previously called it CFS. I Know. I should get out more.

I always thought that was a crucial question and would be happy to answer it. But I'm not returning to the other place to do so.

It just goes to show that it is really all about the dysfunctional doctor/patient relationship. This may be why Wessely never again mentioned Pilowsky's Abnormal Illness Behaviour in the context of ME. It was destined to re-emerge as MUS.

It isn't surprising that we are confused if people capable of constructing such poorly thought out sentences are in charge. How many categories is he suggesting. Are "real" and "imaginary or blameworthy" separate classifications or merely descriptive of "physical" and "mental" respectively? Is...

If the SENCO behaves in that manner does one not have the right to take the matter first to the Headteacher, and failing that, to the responsible Governor.